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Quetion Bank Unit-4

The document is a question bank for statistics covering various topics such as population and sample means, confidence intervals, standard deviations, and probability calculations. It includes problems related to sampling distributions, confidence limits, and estimation of means and variances. Each question requires calculations based on given data and statistical principles.

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Quetion Bank Unit-4

The document is a question bank for statistics covering various topics such as population and sample means, confidence intervals, standard deviations, and probability calculations. It includes problems related to sampling distributions, confidence limits, and estimation of means and variances. Each question requires calculations based on given data and statistical principles.

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QUESTION BANK

UNIT – IV

Q.1 A population consist of 5 numbers 2,3,6,8,11. Consider all possible samples of size two
which can be drawn with replacement from this population.
Find(a) Mean, variance and standard deviation of population
(b) the mean of the sampling distribution of means.
(c) the S.D of the sampling distribution of means
2
σ
(d) Verify σ 2 x=
n

Q.2 A population consist of four members 3,7,11,15 consider sample size 2 which can be
drawn with replacement from population . find
i) the population mean µ
ii) the mean of sampling distribution of means µx
iii) Variance of sampling distribution of mean σ 2 x

Q3.If sample of size 5 results in the values 7,9,1,6,2 then find


i) Sample mean and Sample variance ( x and s2)
ii) Standard error σx

Q. 4 Find 95% confidence interval estimating the mean height of 1546 students at XYZ
university by taking a sample of size 100 , Given sample mean 67.45 and SD is 2.93

Q.5 Assume that the height of 3000 male students at a university are normally distributed
with mean 68 inches and standard deviation 3 inches. If 80 samples consisting of 25 students
each are obtained what would be the mean and standard deviation of the resulting sample of
means if sampling were done with replacement and how many samples are required to find mean
less than 66.4 inches.
Q.6. A machine produces on an average 40 defective bolts with standard deviation of 6.Find the
probability that in a random sample of 400 bolts produced by the machine i)between 30 and 50
ii)At the most 30 bolts will be defective.
Q.7.Five hundred ball bearings have a mean weight of 5.02oz and a S.D of 0.30oz. Find the
probability that a random sample of 100 ball bearing chosen from this group will have a
combined weight a) between 4.96 and 5.00 oz b) more than 5.10 oz
Q.8.In measuring reaction time, a psychologist estimates that the standard deviation is
0.05second. How large a sample of measurements must be taken in order to be (a) 95% (b) 99%
confident that the error in his estimate of the mean reaction time will not exceed 0.01 second?
Q.9.A random sample of 50 mathematics grades out of a total of 200 showed a mean of 75 and a
standard deviation of 10 (a) what are 95% confidence limits for the mean of the 200 grades? (b)
with what degree of confidence could we say that the mean of all 200 grades is 75± 1.
Q.10.The standard deviation of lifetimes of a sample of 200 electric bulbs was computed to be
100 hours. Find (a) 95% (b) 99% confidence limits for the standard deviation of all such electric
bulbs.
Q11. The standard deviation of breaking strength of a sample of 50 cables tested by a company
was 1800 lb was. Find (a) 95% (b) 99% confidence limits for the standard deviation of all such
cables.

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